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How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Cluebg-1294-en-1e

Setup

1. Place all six tokens on their colored spaces around the gameboard.[1]

2. Choose your character.[1]

3. Place all the weapons in separate, random rooms.[1]

4. Separate the 29 Clue cards from the other cards and shuffle the clue card deck, leaving it facedown by the gameboard.[1]

5. Separate the other cards into three decks: characters, weapons, and rooms; shuffle each deck and place it facedown.[1]

6. Take the top card from each deck and slide it into the solve envelope.[1]

7. Place the envelope on the center of the board.[1]

8. Shuffle the remaining character, weapon, and room cards together and deal them all out among the players.[1]

9. For a two-player (or team) variation, after completing steps 1-5, shuffle the remaining cards and place four cards facedown randomly in any four rooms.[2]

10. Tear one sheet from the detective notebook for each player.[1]

11. All players secretly show one card to the left.[1]

On Your Turn

1. Roll one of the six-sided dice to determine who goes first.[3]

2. Move your character token up to the number of squares you rolled.[3]

3. You cannot move diagonally, go through the same square twice on a turn, or land on or move through a square already occupied by another token including doorways.[3]

4. You may enter a room on your turn, but do not have to roll the exact number, and you must enter through an unblocked doorway.[3]

5. If you roll the magnifying glass icon, draw a Clue card, read it aloud, and do what it says.[3]

6. If you are already in a room at the start of your turn, you do not have to move if you plan to make a suggestion.[3]

7. If there is a secret passage, you can move your token to the room the passage connects to.[3]

8. Make a suggestion for who did it, with what, and where by saying, "I suggest [any character], in [the room you are in], with [any weapon]".[4]

9. Move the suspect character and weapon into that room.[4]

10. The player to your left secretly shows you one of the cards from your suggestion, if they have one; if they have more than one, they choose which one to show you.[4]

11. If the player to your left does not have one, the next player secretly shows you a card from your suggestion, and so on.[4]

12. After being shown a card, mark it on your sheet; it can no longer be in the envelope.[4]

13. If you want to know if a player has a specific card, try naming one or two of your own cards.[2]

14. If you want to, you can make an accusation right after you make a suggestion.[4]

15. To make an accusation, you must be in a room (but not necessarily the room you are naming) and say, "I accuse [character], in [room], with [weapon]".[4]

16. Secretly open the envelope; if all three cards you named are inside, you win.[4]

17. If you are wrong, put the cards back in the envelope without letting anyone see; you cannot take any more turns, but you must still show cards when other players make suggestions or name cards they want revealed.[4]

Winning and Ending the Game

1. You win if you make a correct accusation.[4]

2. The game continues until someone makes a correct accusation; if no one does, the murderer gets away.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook · p.3 · and WHERE? · SET-UP

[2] RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook · p.4 · TWO-PLAYER (OR TEAM) GAME · MARKING YOUR SHEET · PROCESS OF ELIMINATION · USING YOUR CARDS

[3] RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook · p.4 · SET-UP · LET'S PLAY · ON YOUR TURN · 1. Move your character token.

[4] RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook · p.4 · 2. Make a suggestion. · HOW TO WIN

Settled. Play on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 75 ms · ask 5138 ms · total 12811 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 7597 ms · generation 5214 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 4, "score": 0.04866, "snippet": "4C2S Roll one of the six-sided dice to determine who goes first. Roll the dice then you may perform one or more actions: You may move up to the number of squares you rolled. (The magnifying glass counts as 1!) If you are able to enter a room, see step 2 for more details. You cannot move diagonally, ", "headingPath": "SET-UP · LET'S PLAY · ON YOUR TURN · 1. Move your character token.", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.048652, "snippet": "This variation plays like the classic game, with two exceptions: Set up: After you've completed steps 1-5, shuffle the remaining cards and place four cards facedown randomly in any four rooms. (For a speedier game, place them in the corner rooms.) Then continue setup as usual. Play: If you enter a r", "headingPath": "TWO-PLAYER (OR TEAM) GAME · MARKING YOUR SHEET · PROCESS OF ELIMINATION · USING YOUR CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.047379, "snippet": "4C2S Place all six tokens on their colored spaces around the gameboard. All tokens must be on the gameboard, even if there aren't six players. Choose your character. Place all the weapons in separate, random rooms. Separate the 29 Clue cards from the other cards. Shuffle the clue card deck and leave", "headingPath": "and WHERE? · SET-UP", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.047371, "snippet": "If you reach or stay in a room, make a suggestion for who did it, with what, and where. Say, 'I suggest [ any character ], in [ the room you are in ], with [ any weapon ].' Move the suspect character and weapon into that room. (They'll remain there after your turn. There can be any number of tokens ", "headingPath": "2. Make a suggestion. · HOW TO WIN", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "An up-and-coming chef full of youthful ambition and fresh ideas. She's been running Black's kitchen for years, but finds his uninspired menu creatively stifling and dreams of opening a restaurant of her own. Her plan relies on talent, persistence... and the money she's been skimming from Boddy Black", "headingPath": "CHEF WHITE · and WHERE?", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "4C2S CLUE and HASBRO and all related trademarks and logos are trademarks of Hasbro, Inc. © 2023 Hasbro. TM & ® denote U.S. Trademarks. Hasbro, Pawtucket, RI 02861-1059 USA. 4150C765300000A Consumer contact: US/Canada: Hasbro Games, Consumer Affairs Dept., P.O. Box 200, Pawtucket, RI 02861-1059 USA. ", "headingPath": "THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER · CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "4C2S A socialite, at first glance. A sharply intelligent investigative journalist, in reality. Writing under the nom de plume 'Cyan', she's landed mobsters in jail and taken down hometown heroes. No one is safe from her pen because no one knows who she is. Except for Boddy Black, who just happens to", "headingPath": "CONTENTS · MISS SCARLETT · COLONEL MUSTARD · MAYOR GREEN · SOLICITOR PEACOCK · PROFESSOR PLUM", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "and WHERE? · SET-UP", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "TWO-PLAYER (OR TEAM) GAME · MARKING YOUR SHEET · PROCESS OF ELIMINATION · USING YOUR CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SET-UP · LET'S PLAY · ON YOUR TURN · 1. Move your character token.", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "2. Make a suggestion. · HOW TO WIN", "sharpsignalDocId": 146}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 146 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 146 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.89365 of 2567 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 26, 2026 07:05 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	SET-UP · LET'S PLAY · ON YOUR TURN · 1. Move your character token.	p.4	0.04866 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	TWO-PLAYER (OR TEAM) GAME · MARKING YOUR SHEET · PROCESS OF ELIMINATION · USING YOUR CARDS	p.4	0.048652 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	and WHERE? · SET-UP	p.3	0.047379 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	2. Make a suggestion. · HOW TO WIN	p.4	0.047371 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	CHEF WHITE · and WHERE?	p.2	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER · CONTENTS	p.1	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	CONTENTS · MISS SCARLETT · COLONEL MUSTARD · MAYOR GREEN · SOLICITOR PEACOCK · PROFESSOR PLUM	p.2	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 7 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	TWO-PLAYER (OR TEAM) GAME · MARKING YOUR SHEET · PROCESS OF ELIMINATION · USING YOUR CARDS	p.4	#2	0.048652 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	2. Make a suggestion. · HOW TO WIN	p.4	#4	0.047371 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	CONTENTS · MISS SCARLETT · COLONEL MUSTARD · MAYOR GREEN · SOLICITOR PEACOCK · PROFESSOR PLUM	p.2	#7	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	CHEF WHITE · and WHERE?	p.2	#5	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER · CONTENTS	p.1	#6	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	and WHERE? · SET-UP	p.3	#3	0.047379 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	SET-UP · LET'S PLAY · ON YOUR TURN · 1. Move your character token.	p.4	#1	0.04866 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	and WHERE? · SET-UP	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	TWO-PLAYER (OR TEAM) GAME · MARKING YOUR SHEET · PROCESS OF ELIMINATION · USING YOUR CARDS	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	SET-UP · LET'S PLAY · ON YOUR TURN · 1. Move your character token.	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Clue — Rulebook (corpus doc 146)	2. Make a suggestion. · HOW TO WIN	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 75 ms · first delta 1144 ms · total 12811 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 7597 ms · retrieval 75 ms · ask 5138 ms · gateway work 5214 ms · total 12811 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2625
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 816
tok/sec: 202.7 tok/sec — 816 output tokens in 4.025 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 5s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 5s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 68), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.